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Wynn’s Oakes sold for 5000X. 1 This i investigated, by my good 
friend Lord Suflield, & find it is true. Two of the Trees called 
the Lord & the Lady were valued at 70 Guineas each. In another 
note, he says without good authority, that the Earl of Hertford 2 fell’d 
a Wycli Elm in his park in Lisburn (Ireland) that contained 99 
tun of timber. 3 Being known to his Lordship when abroad, i wrote 
to him; and his Ldp tells me, it was an Oak not Elm, that he did 
not fell it, but it fell of itself, in a calm summer day, to his 
sorrow. It was sound, the trunk or body was 29 feet long, & 
36 in circumference, which sold for 4S£. one piece of the head for 
5£. 10£. for Bark, and 58.£. for the rest of the head. Tot. 121£. 
As we do not know where the cire. was taken, you see we are left 
in ignorance : if at 14 f £ which should be, then his Ldp was 
abominably cheated. Hunter also mentions an Ash at Leg or Leix 
in Queens County in Ireland 39 f round near the ground, and 28 f. 
at six f. I try’d for an account of this Tree from my great 
neighbour the Earl of Bucks 4 when he was Lieu 1 ' which not 
receiving so early as i wished, i wrote to my old friend D r Man 
Bp of Corke. But all i have gained is, that a print of it was 
engraving in London. This i have not seen : & a print without 
a scale would certainly not satisfy my curiosity. — Your friends 
Sycamore is a little larger than I have seen, and his pollard Oaks 
are respectable. 
I observed nothing remarkable in this "Winter but a greater 
number of the red-wing Thrush than usual, & have as yet but 
Two articles for my Indications of Spring for 92. viz Snow-drop 
F. Jan. 25. & yellow Butterfly this day. Your Eelations Swifts 
delay was extraordinary. My Swallows left me Sep. 27. but 
one was seen within 5 miles on y e last of October. — I shall long for 
your account of the fern Owl in the Ph. Trans, as i conclude you 
1 Hunter (op. cit. ii. p. 2SS) however says fifty tons for £2,500. — A N. 
* Francis Seymour succeeded his father as Lord Conway in 1732, was 
created Earl of Hertford in 1750, and Marquess in 1793. Died in 1796. — A.N. 
5 I have not been able to find Hunter’s reference to this tree or to the Ash 
presently mentioned. — A.N. 
4 John nobart, succeeded his father as Earl of Buckinghamshire and 
owner of Blickling in Norfolk, in 1766, Ambassador at St. Petersburg in 1762, 
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1777, died in 1793.— A N. 
